THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT

TYPICAL MOUNTAIN GOAT COUNTRY

FIVE GOAT MAY BE SEEN IN THE CLEFTS OF THE ROCKS.

Photographed in northern British Columbia by the late E. A. Stanfield.

THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT

By

MADISON GRANT

SECRETARY OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

REPRINTED FROM THE NINTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

NEW YORK

OFFICE OF THE SOCIETY, 11 WALL STREET

1905

Copyright, 1905, by the
NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT AND SHEEP

IN THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK.

Born in the spring of 1904, captured near Fort Steele and Michel, British Columbia.

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REPRINTED FROM THE

THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT.

By MADISON GRANT.

The white or Rocky Mountain goat shares with the musk-ox the honor of being the least known of the game animals of North America and descriptions of it written even as recently as ten years ago are valueless, as in many cases this animal is confused with white mountain sheep and even with deer. The explanation of this lack of knowledge lies in the extremely remote and inaccessible habitat of the goat, which begins in the northwestern United States, among the highest peaks of the Rocky Mountains and of the coast ranges and extends north, through British Columbia, into Alaska. The material in most natural histories, relating to this animal, is scanty and based on very inadequate information, since the opportunity to see and hunt it has not been granted to many. In captivity, we have had, on the Atlantic coast, only eight immature specimens, two in Boston in 1899, two in Philadelphia in 1893, and the four now (1905) living in the New York Zoological Park. One well grown male is living at this time in the London Zoological Garden.

As a result of this scarcity of